Gearfire, or National Firearms Dealer Network, as they used to call themselves, is a provider of online shopping cart systems for gun dealers. One of my clients is a Flowermound dealer that uses them, and I had to set up their website to link to a “store” subdomain that is hosted by NFDN. Here’s a small list of websites that all use the Gearfire software:Salty1 wrote:Many company's are taking an inventory feed from some distributors and putting that on their websites to make it appear that they have it in stock. The time difference between your order and the order with the distributor can result in the item no longer being available even though you think you purchased the item the dealer has not. Also the distributor needs to send it to the dealer you purchased from who in turn needs to send it to your FFL. That results in many days for transportation alone. There is a value to local gun shops, some just place more of a value on price than they do on service...
You’ll note that when you get to the shopping cart part, they all look the same.....just the graphics are a little different.
In the case of my client, they both had inventory on hand, AND they sold from NFDN’s inventory. So if you bought from them direct, it was like any gun store experience. But if you bought online from their online store, delivery would be very much dependent on whether or not NFDN had the item in stock to ship to my client’s location for you to pick it up.
FWT uses another similar technology. Their store looks a lot like the PrimaryArms.com website. Possibly they use the same software suite.